For years, the United States has been selling advanced weapons to Arab countries, sometimes despite Israeli opposition - and examples are not lacking. • Contacts for the sale of the F35 began before the agreement.
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In order to destroy the peace celebrations with the Emirates, in the middle of the week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rivals invented a new plot. Bibi, they claim, approved with a wink to the Americans to sell to the Emirates F-35. In fact, so we are supposed to understand, he did not bring a historic achievement, but again sold Israel's security.
Well, you can work on some people part of the time, you can not work on all people all the time.
Let's start with a little background, at your disposal. The American arms industry is one of the richest and most powerful powerful lobbies in the world. It is so powerful that American governments are afraid of it and whitewash its failures. Because it is so critical to the American economy, presidents and members of Congress have always helped sell advanced weapons to the entire world, including to Arab countries. Israel, for its part, tried to resist, but to no avail.
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In 1980, for example, the United States sold to Egypt what was then the world's most advanced fighter jet, the F-35. Egypt was our greatest enemy. Only seven years earlier, in the Yom Kippur War, had it hit the Air Force hard. A year earlier, a peace agreement had been signed with her, which had not even been implemented at the time, and yet it was clear to the captains in Israel and Washington that the risk - tens of times greater than in the case of the Emirates - was worth it.
further. Saudi Arabia, which is geographically closer to Israel several times than the United Arab Emirates, has been operating the F15 for 40 years. The most advanced models of the king of fighter jets are scattered in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, although the kingdom was one of the leaders of hatred towards us in the Arab world. Israel knew and restrained itself that there was really nothing to do. No concern is remembered from those who are chirping now.
Still in the 1980s and in Saudi Arabia, the US sold the kingdom the Aivax early warning plane. Together with all our fans in Washington we set out in a determined struggle to cancel the deal, but the failure was diligent. We asked for it, we answered in the negative, where were Barnea and Abramovich then?
Tasting from the past we will move on to the present. Also on the drawing board, the F35 was intended by the Americans for export to the whole world - and indeed has been sold so far including friends of the United States, for example to Turkey. Obama has approved the sale of the elusive little Sultan. Erdogan bought 400S missiles from Putin at the same time, despite warnings from the president that his country had lost a lot of money, and luckily only four of the 120 planes were handed over to the Turkish Air Force.
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Now to the Emirates affair - and let's start with the bottom line. The United States has not decided at all whether or not to sell the advanced aircraft to the Emirates, so the claim of a dark deal is automatically dropped. Second, even if the Emirates eventually gets the desired evasion, it will be unprecedented compared to the past. We got more advanced aircraft - and no one in our places compensated, so we are asked, this time too, to maintain proportion.
Third, the evidence also refutes any basis for the claim of a "stealth for peace" deal. Prime Minister Netanyahu has published all the steps he and his representatives have taken to oppose the sale of the planes to the princesses. This opposition stands. Moreover, the head of the National Security Council's investigation with the commander of the Air Force regarding the possibility of the plane being sold to the Emirates was made before the possibility of an agreement with them came up. Ben Shabbat spoke with General Nurkin on June 2, I said only on June 12th.
Later, at the end of June, White House envoy Avi Berkovich visited here to examine what to do with sovereignty. That is, when Ben Shabbat was allegedly sent by Netanyahu to track down the Air Force commander - and in any case was answered in the negative - the egg had not yet been born. So here's Pike on Pike on Pike.
No deal. If so, it has nothing to do with Israel, and in any case the danger posed by it is small in relation to past transactions. You can therefore turn off the siren.